There is a lot of talk these days about how the GOP cannot afford to shut down the government like they did in 1995. “Remember,” they the chattering class say, “the GOP got destroyed at the polls in 1996.” That talk has everything to do with the Democrats winning the message battle in the media, but has nothing to do with anything else. Let’s roll | Read More »

“The people are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our Liberty.” –Thomas Jefferson Last year at this time, my friend and fellow conservative, Tabitha Hale, wrote a piece entitled “2010: The Year of the Citizen,” wherein she reflected upon the consequential political happenings of 2009 and provided her poignant outlook and predictions for the upcoming new year. Over the course of the last twelve | Read More »

Sam Hale is the 25 year old founder of the conservative action group the Maryland Society of Patriots. Hale is a conservative activist who was heavily involved in Brian Murphy’s primary campaign for Governor of Maryland. I asked him if he’d be willing to answer some questions on the issues facing the Maryland GOP and his platform if elected Chair of the Maryland GOP. His | Read More »

Mike P. Estève is a Loyola College student, the current Maryland Federation of College Republican Chair, and an active candidate for MD GOP State Party Chair. He’s 20 years old and highly motivated. I asked him if he was willing to answer a few of my questions on the issues facing the party and his goals if selected as Chairman. Matthew R. Newman: What made | Read More »

Texas Governor Rick Perry will be named chairman of the Republican Governors Association when the group gathers in California next week. Perry’s appointment to the RGA won’t be the governor’s first rodeo: He led the same committee in 2008 and had worked in varying capacities for the group in years prior. The Washington-bound move — not the move for which some Republican donors had hoped | Read More »

Texas Governor Rick Perry will be named chairman of the Republican Governors Association when the group gathers in California next week. Perry’s appointment to the RGA won’t be the governor’s first rodeo: He led the same committee in 2008 and had worked in varying capacities for the group in years prior. The Washington-bound move — not the move for which some Republican donors had hoped | Read More »

Rep. Mark Schauer’s futile money-shot: “I understand the concerns that many Americans have over how their government is spending taxpayers’ money. One of the reasons I ran for Congress is because I believed we needed to end the fiscal irresponsibility that turned a $234 billion surplus into a $1.2 trillion deficit by the time I took office.”

Well, here it comes, folks. We are well into the season in which companies roll out the changes in the next year’s health insurance options. A little late, as the HR folks on my call today acknowledged, but they are ‘dealing with such a huge volume of new regulation and cost changes’ that they have had a huge team (read all of the legal and | Read More »

Republicans are poised to take control of the House in November and with a little luck may well pick up the Senate too. The last time this situation occurred was November 1994 when Newt Gingrich and the Republicans picked up 54 seats and took the House for the first time in 40 years. They also picked up 8 seats in the Senate, enough to take | Read More »

Here’s how your income will “increase” and so will your taxes, under the new Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or health care reform/Obamanationcare. (Also, you should know that the DOJ is defending against the the 20 states’ suit against the above Act, saying it is a TAX, and Congress has the unlimited right to tax you for any reason.) Should you want to verify | Read More »

I thought I would pass this along in case you hadn’t seen it elsewhere. From the press release: Conservative Republican Bill Johnson today announced his candidacy for Congress in Ohio’s 6th district. Johnson is a retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, entrepreneur and currently servesas Chief Information Officer of a publicly traded manufacturing company. He says his experiences have helped propel his decision to run for | Read More »